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CATIA TrainingFoils

Version 5 Release 7

May 2001FOR-CAT-E-COM-AF-V5R7

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Table of Contents

1. Working with CATIA V5 3About sett ing in CATIA V5 4

2. Using Knowledge Common Tools 6

Accesing Knowledgeware Common Tools 7

Terminology 8About New User Parameter 9

About Fromulas 10

About Design Table 11

About the Mediator 12

3. Using Catalogs of Components 13What is a Catalog ? 14

Catalog Terminology 15

Browsing a Catalog 16

Inserting a component from a Catalog 17

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Working with CATIA V5

You wil l learn how to manage Settings in CATIA V5

General Settings in CATIA V5

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About Settings in CATIA V5

General Settings

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Units Settings

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You wil l become familiar with CATIA V5 Design Tables and Formulas common

tools and main features

Accessing Knowledgeware Common Tools

Terminology

About New User Parameters

About Formulas

About Design TableAbout the Mediator

Using Knowledgeware Common Tools

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Accessing Knowledge Common Tools

Design Tables icon

Formulas icon

Knowledge Inspector or

Mediator i con

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Terminology

Parameter (Intr insic & user)

Formula

Design Table

Configuration

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About New User Parameter

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About Formulas

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About Design Table

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About the Mediator

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Using Catalogs of Components

You will learn the Catalog workbench main features and tools to browsing

catalogs of reusable components

What is a Catalog ?

Catalog Terminology

Browsing a Catalog

Inserting a Component from a Catalog

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What is a Catalog?

Catalog Edit ion

Catalog Browser

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Chapter referencinganother chapter

Catalog Terminology

Chapter referencing

two Families

Families

Keywordnames

Keyword valuesComponents

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Browsing a Catalog

Query field to

narrow down your

search

Access to fatherchapter

Current chapter

displayed

Query

Launcher

Displays orhides

descriptions

table

Selects

another

catalog

Descriptions

table

Elements

referenced in the

current chapter

Display Modes

Selected

element

preview

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Inserting a Component from a Catalog (1/2)

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Inserting a Component from a Catalog (2/2)

x 2

Double-click on the desired component to insert1

Inserting a Component from a Catalog : we can obtain a preview

of the component to posit ion it on the target document

2 A preview window appears

3 Select on the target component a point to position the new component

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To Sum Up ...

In this course you have learned:

powerful tools common to all workbenches, such as

Compass to move and manipulate objects

Parameters, formulas, design tables, and mediator to parameter your

designPowerCopies to re-use objects (geometry, relations,...)

Catalogs to instanciate objects